Groom’s Praise of His Bride

• [fn] You are beautiful!
• Your eyes are doves
  • from behind your veil.
• Your hair is like a flock of goats
  • that move down from the mountains of Gilead.
  • 2 are like a flock of shorn ewes that came up from the washing,
• all of them bearing twins,
  • and there is none bereaved among them.
  • 3 are like a thread of crimson, and your mouth is lovely.
• Your temple is like pomegranate
  • from behind your veil.
  • 4 is like the tower of David, built in courses;
• a thousand[fn] are hung on it,
  • all the shields of the warriors.
  • 5 are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies.
  • 6  I will go to the mountain of the myrrh,
    • to the hill of the frankincense.
  • 7 are completely beautiful, my beloved![fn]